Human Temperature Control: A Quantitative Approach

✍ Scribed by Eugene H. Wissler

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The principal objective of this book is to provide information needed to define human thermal behavior quantitatively. Human thermal physiology is defined using mathematical methods routinely employed by physicists and engineers, but seldom used by physiologists. Major sections of the book are devoted to blood flow, sweating, shivering, heat transfer within the body, and heat and mass transfer from skin and clothing to the environment. Simple algebraic models based on experimental data from a century of physiological investigation are developed for bodily processes. The book offers an invaluable source of information for physiologists and physical scientists interested in quantitative approaches to the fascinating field of human thermoregulation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Animal Heat and Thermal Regulation (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 1-16
Conservation of Energy (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 17-40
Temperature Measurement (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 41-76
Circulation (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 77-196
Sweating (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 197-237
Shivering (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 239-264
Temperature Distribution in the Body (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 265-287
Clothing (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 289-336
Heat and Mass Transfer from the Skin and Clothing (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 337-383
The Development of a Mathematical Human Thermal Model (Eugene H. Wissler)....Pages 385-425

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine; Human Physiology; Thermodynamics; Biochemical Engineering; Neurosciences